Adria Sanders
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About the author
I was born during the communist bloc in Eastern Europe and lived in a world where there were strict rules and fear was present at every turn. I remember the hardships I faced and how I later discovered after the communist bloc fall a different world with all the possibilities, but just as hard and full of hardships. As a child, I had the feeling that I didn’t fit into the world I lived in. There was always something missing, and that made me go inside myself and hide between books or in film scenes where fairy tales provided clarity to the world. I remember a recurring dream of a beach house and woke up crying and saying I wanted to go home.
My family was artistic, and it centered around two people: my mother and my grandmother. My father was just a guest in my life and disappeared just as quickly.
The sensitive and impressionable child in me grew and adapted to its surroundings. I dreamt of a professional life as a therapist – psychologist, but it did not materialize and I entered a competitive business life where pragmatism and survival became my new dress.
In all this business-orientated life, I met, as if coming from other world, my ex-husband, seemingly by chance. He seemed detached from everything I had known until then. The warmth and friendship that developed between the two of us and the feeling of déjà vu were the context that led me to the next step. Marriage. But the beauty between us began to crumble. With the appearance of my baby boy, my life changed 180 degrees. What followed was a divorce and a life as a single mum that taught me more about myself than all those years before being courageous, fearless and following my dreams.
I am currently the same business woman, but someone who took the chance to open herself to her other inner facets and rediscover herself.
